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How do you move a column or row in a table in the New Editing Experience

unknown

I do not see any way to move a row or a column in a table when using the New Editing Experience pages. Does anyone know how to do this? (I am using Confluence Cloud)

Thank you!

Joseph

Accepted answers

Shannon S

Hello Joseph,

Thank you for contacting us about this! It's not currently possible to reorder a row or column in tables in the new editor. We have a feature request for this below:

CONFCLOUD-25847 Drag & Drop to reorder table rows

Please vote on this request and you will automatically be added to the list of watchers and receive updates on this in the future.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon

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Shannon S

Hello Joseph,

Thank you for contacting us about this! It's not currently possible to reorder a row or column in tables in the new editor. We have a feature request for this below:

CONFCLOUD-25847 Drag & Drop to reorder table rows

Please vote on this request and you will automatically be added to the list of watchers and receive updates on this in the future.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon

unknown

Thank you Shannon. I voted on that item. So to be clear. There is currently no way to move a row or a column of a table within Confluence? As a work around I am currently copying into Excel and then pasting back when I have it reordered.

Shannon S

Hi Joseph,

To confirm, there is not a way to move a row or column of a table within Confluence. Thank you for your vote, and I hope we can see this soon!

Regards,

Shannon

Daniel Brumund

Hi Shannon,

Is it possible to cut/paste a table column or row? If not, I'm really just wondering why your developers would remove such an essential feature? It's making the user experience significantly less user-friendly for me... Sorry, just a bit of a frustrated rant about improvements that actually make things worse :-(

Shannon S

Hi Daniel,

I've tried, but it's also not possible to cut and paste rows in the table. I had to create new rows and re-enter or paste the text into each cell individually.

Edit: What you will be able to do is cut the text itself. So, click at the start of the row or column to select the whole section, and type ctrl+X (or cmd+x on macOS). Then you can create a new row/column where you want the text to go, and paste it there. But be aware that if you don't create a new row or column, if you paste it will just overwrite the existing data.

This feature is of course very popular so I can see this one gathering traction quickly. I would recommend watching the feature, but also keep an eye on the Confluence Cloud Editor roadmap for any other updates.

I just thought of a workaround that might work for you, and I tested it so I can confirm it works. I added it as a comment on the feature request:

I was able to re-order some columns in a table using Excel as a workaround.

Select the table in Confluence by clicking the corner of the table, and copying to my clipboard.

Paste the table into a clean Excel spreadsheet.

I moved the columns as desired while holding down the SHIFT key and using this procedure: https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2014/01/23/swap-excel-columns/

I then copied the table in Excel, and pasted it on top of the table in Confluence, replacing the data.

There's currently a bug related to copying and pasting single-digit decimals into Confluence. Please be aware of this in case you have any decimals in your table: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68744

Let me know if that could help!

Regards,

Shannon

Manish Ayachit

Is this feature even being worked on? Hard to believe it isn't available yet. Workflow is really slowing down without being able to slide around rows and columns. Please add feature ASAP.

Torquil Harkness_7xb9ip

They have had 3 years, and didnt include it in the product redesign.. you know they aren't adding it :-) We may as well all go back to Google Docs :-)

Jean-Charles Sorin

I don't understand how a basic feature is not prioritized. It will be great to have some updates there

Steven Salmon

I just cut and paste rows. Create an empty row where you want it to go, select the row you want to move, right click-cut, place your cursor in the first cell of your new row, right click-paste.

Joel Wesseling

Everyone knows that drag and drop takes 2 years to develop...

Peter Anderson_3vi02z

Is there an update on this? It doesn't appear this issue has been resolved.

Allison Bloodworth

Thanks Steven, that worked for me!

Annesh Singh

Any update on this

kilaka

Almost 3 years now!

kilaka

Almost 3 years now...

caa

Is this a joke?
3 years to do a row move in a table, and it's still not there.

Vaclav Elias

Not a joke, there is a condition:

if (votesCount >= 1000) MoveToSprint(GetNextSprint());

Ryan Evans_vu894u

843 votes as of today, come on Team lets get this over the line!

Vaclav Elias

Sadly, the logic was updated by inflation😟

if (votesCount >= 1000 + GetInflation()) MoveToSprint(GetNextSprint());

The BA adds inflation everywhere 😡.

unknown

I'd love to see this feature but I found a substitute for now:

select row to move + cmd + x to cut the row
go to cell next to which you want to move this row
ctrl + opt + up arrow (or down) to add a row
select new row cmd+v to paste the row

Chase Barrett

Love to see this fixed too and I upvoted the issue.

Another workaround:

Create an order column
Populate column with alphabetical sequence ("aaa", "bbb", ...)
Sort the table on your order column:
- In edit mode, select the "cell options" popup menu in the upper right corner of the column header, then select "Sort column A -> Z"
- In view mode, simply click the sort arrow when you hover over the right side of the column header
As time goes on and you need to maintain your (perhaps sizable) table, modify the cell values in your order column to arrange rows where you want them, then re-sort the table.

robfor01

Another alternative for moving rows is the source editor of Confluence.

Click 'Edit'.
Go to the source editor (top right: <>).
Look for where the rows begin and end, with the <tr> and </tr> tags. It will help you to navigate the table in the source view.
Copy or cut the whole row.
Move the cursor to between the two rows you want this row to be.
Paste.
Return to the normal view.

rick thaxter

I have 4 columns in a table. If I try to copy an entire row to a new one, it just splits the first 2 columns into two and pastes the content into them, leaving 2 empty cells to the right.

Andrei Chernoprudov

The best way so far, thanks!

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